Few books (non-technical & non-fictional) which have strongly influenced my thought & life.

I have read all of these on the wrong side of 30, but I wish I could have read those at 18.

(In no particular order)

THREAD Sapiens (Yuval Noah Harari)

The best way to become a good human being is to realize that we are nothing more than animals with little better brain.

@harari_yuval describes how humans evolved over time from another helpless animal to the most cruel & insecure animal on earth.

(Thread) Here is a short summary of "Rules of ML" by Martin Zinkevich (developers.google.com/machine-learni…). The #MachineLearning life cycle should consist of three phases: Phase 0
- Launch the product without #MachineLearning . Collect #Data
Phase 1
- Building the first basic/transparent #model
- Make the #infrastructure right
- Monitor the right set of #metrics
- System should get a boost with a simple model itself